Numerical Computing With IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic: Including One Theorem, One Rule of Thumb, and One Hundred and One Exercises.(Telegraphic Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Journal of the American Statistical Association, June, 2004 by Peruggia, Mario

Numerical Computing With IEEE Floating Point Arithmetic: Including One Theorem, One Rule of Thumb, and One Hundred and One Exercises.

Michael L. OVERTON. Philadelphia: SIAM, 2001. ISBN 0-89871-482-6. xi 104 pp. $40.00 (H).

This book provides an agile and informative introduction to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standard for binary floating point arithmetic. The IEEE standard, which is implemented almost universally in the computer industry, specifies how binary floating point numbers should be represented using an exponential notation, how much the rounded results of an elementary floating point operation might be allowed to differ from the corresponding infinite precision exact result, and how exceptional situations...

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